CONGREGATIONAL UNION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22212, 15 March 1934, Page 9

CONGREGATIONAL UNION

RESOLUTIONS OF ASSEMBLY REV. ALBERT MEAD ELECTED CHAIRMAN. (Pkb United Press Association.) PALMERSTQN N., March 14. The following officers were elected at the annual assembly of the Congregational Union: —Chairman for 1935, the Rev. Albert Mead; preacher for the 1935 assembly, the Rev. J. Milburn Stewart; moderator and secretary, the Rev. Harry Johnson; treasurer, Mr T. Forsyth; registrar, Mr R. P. Stewart; Young Peoples' Department secretary, the Rev. H. W. Newell; college warden, the Rev. J. J. ghaw.

A resolution was carried protesting against the indiscriminate sale of art union ticket's on the public streets. While viewing with the gravest concern the present situation, in regard to unemployment and while recognising a general desire to help those in distress, the assembly felt that the present method was inadequate" because of a dangerous tendency towards the moral and physical deterioration of the unemployed and also because it' could not lead to a permanent solution of the problem and urged its churches to do their share towards rousing the moral conscience of the people in order that they would be eager to make any sacrifice and try any method which could lead to the re-absorption of the unemployed. ; A protest was also made against Sunday railway excursions.